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Compare College Basketball Teams

In progress. College basketball is still being built and is not in the navigation. The ratings are ours and are shown with the date they were fitted; they are not graded in public.

How would two teams match up, by how much, and at what pace — and where does each rank?

2025-26 seasonthrough ratings as of 2026-04-06most recent completed season — 2026-27 has no ratings yet

Team 1: Northern Iowa change (top 100 by AdjEM; any team via its page)
Team 2: Alabama change (top 100 by AdjEM; any team via its page)

On a neutral floor the ratings make Alabama a 7.5-point favourite at about 70 possessions; at Northern Iowa it is -4.1, at Alabama -10.8 (from Northern Iowa's side).

Neutral
-7.5
69.8 poss.
At Northern Iowa
-4.1
69.8 poss.
At Alabama
-10.8
69.8 poss.

Margins are from Northern Iowa's side, from the snapshot of 2026-04-06.

MetricNorthern IowaAlabama
Adjusted efficiency margin+9.765+20.418
Adjusted offence106.7170121.65
Adjusted defence97.118101.351
Adjusted tempo64.436475.28
Raw offence105.2213119.37
Raw defence96.39107.6199
Effective FG%53.2%9655.2%35
Turnover rate13.5%3912.4%12
Offensive rebound rate124.0%80125.0%78
Free-throw rate25.5%36136.0%152
Opponent eFG%47.4%2949.2%72
Opponent turnover rate16.8%9812.1%354
Defensive rebound rate1.6%210-10.7%239
Opponent free-throw rate30.1%6532.0%104
Three-point attempt rate38.9%19454.4%1
Raw tempo64.836076.66

How this is measured

The projection is the existing projectMargin from lib/cbb/ratings: (AdjEM difference ± the fitted home advantage) × expected possessions ÷ 100, with pace the mean of the two adjusted tempos. It uses the latest snapshot, so it describes the two teams as rated on 2026-04-06 — it is not a line and it is not graded here.

Ranks are out of 364 rated teams, 1 = best; bold marks the better of the two where a metric has a better end.